In the Community

Exciting news flash! Returning coho spawners are difficult to observe because their dark reddish colour makes them hard to see in the water, they are fast swimmers and coho like to travel and spawn at night.

Everyone’s relationship with Christmas seems to be complicated mix of expectations and emotions. Personally, I wasn’t raised in any religion, so its meaning has always been about the gathering of family and the giving of gifts.

The initiative is part of the 120th Annual Audubon Christmas Bird Count, the longest-running citizen science bird census in the world

Snug Cove House board director Ida Goodreau died last week.

Christmastime is meant to be a season when friends and family gather to share laughter, food and drink and count their many blessings. But, this is not the case for everyone. Grief and sadness can also play a role at this time of year.

It’s that time of year again! Get in the holiday spirit and bring your children, aged three to 12, to the Knick Knack Nook for the special Children’s Holiday Shopping afternoon.

By the looks of her suitcase, Holly Elf sure likes to travel. Holly’s frosted journeys are the subject of the Sweet Stand’s 2019 entry for the Grouse Mountain Gingerbread Village Challenge, a fundraiser for B.C. Children’s Hospital.

As Bowen has lost three young people in the last year and a half, local organizations have banded together to provide support for mourning youth, including a two-day retreat last week.

The New York City Marathon has come and gone and Damian Leverton is back on Bowen Island after a successful and enjoyable week in the Big Apple.

Bowen Island Community School students Maeve, Sawyer, Makayla and Addison and teacher Andrea Layzell are teaming up with Kate Hartle of Moss Hair Studio in this year’s shoebox drive for North Shore women’s shelters.